Drummer Mekhi Boone is the youngest of six children of Philadelphia jazz bassist and Temple University Professor Mike Boone and gospel singer and choir director Candi’ce Hinmon-Boone. Mekhi resides in North Wilmington and is in his first year as a jazz performance major at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance, where he studies with drummer Justin Faulkner.
Photo by Joseph V. Labolito / Temple University